Thursday Reader (12/05/13)

Excerpts from my feeds

A word…

This time of year I think about love; probably most people do. But I tend to think about it as a social construct and what “kinds” of love are considered legitimate and worthy in our culture. As someone who doesn’t pair bond in the hetero-normative manner, people think my life is “less than” or not as filled with joy and love. On the contrary. My every day is overflowing with both.

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I wish I thought I could write eloquently on such a complex life. Certainly, even if some of the persona that has been created is a construct, for people to have a figure to look up to and use as inspiration the way people in struggle have used Mandela, than it is a life that has left the world a better place than when they came into it.